6th Grade -
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"What should my child know and be able to do at the end of 6th Grade?"
Importance of
Communication and Math Skills
No subjects in school are more important to a student’s
future success than reading, writing, and mathematics. Without these skills,
students will have a more difficult time learning in the next grade.
They must know how to use reading, writing, and math in all their school
subjects, including art, music, science, social studies, health, and physical
education. Our district has identified the most important for success in
the next grade.
This page describes what we want your child to learn in reading,
writing, and math by the end of the year. It may give you some ideas
about specific skills you would like to help your child practice. As you
will see, our expectations are high. There may be content, such as
geometry, that you would not have expected so early in your child’s education.
There may also be terms which are unfamiliar to you. If there are
parts you are unsure of, please ask your child’s teacher for more information.
One of our goals as a school district is to have as many
children as possible reach these expectations – or learn even more – by the end
of each school year.
Communication Skills –
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By the end of 6th grade, a student should know the following:
Develop word knowledge and reading strategies (skills to
help understand what is read)
- Use strategies to increase
understanding of printed material, such as consulting another source and
considering what is already known.
- Adjust rate of reading and attention
to detail based on the purpose and difficulty of the material being read.
Understand the meaning of what is read
- Gather information from multiple
sources, including websites and print, to answer a question or solve a problem.
- Understand elements of plot and
character development, for example, character traits, conflict, and motivation.
- Support opinions and conclusions
with evidence and examples from the story or informational material.
- Evaluate and author’s effectiveness.
Build habits of a thoughtful reader
- Read independently on a daily basis.
- Read from a variety of materials,
(fiction, classics, contemporary and historical poetry, electronic print, and
public documents.
- Set goals and identify strategies to
improve reading.
Write clearly and effectively (These skills will prepare the
kindergartner for actual writing)
- Choose the focus and supporting
information based on the audience and purpose for writing.
- Use paragraphs that seem complete
and center on one idea.
- Use effective conclusions, not
simply restating ideas or saying, “Thank you for listening.”
- Use different kinds of sentences and
different sentence lengths.
- Understand and apply commonly
accepted English grammar rules, such as subject-verb agreement.
- Spell words appropriate for sixth
grade correctly.
- Understand and apply punctuation to
make reading clear and easy.
- Express ideas on a single topic
Use processes and habits of a thoughtful writer
- Choose the most effective order for
ideas and details.
- Use technology tools that help with writing
process.
- Revise to make the writing more
effectively.
- Use resources such as a computer
spellchecker to proofread for accuracy.
- Share writing with others.
- Maintain a journal of personal
writing, notes, observations, questions, ideas; set own writing improvement goals.Attempt writing
Math Concepts and Skills
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By the end of 6th grade, a student should know the following:
Number Sense and Computation
- Understand the meaning of fractions,
and percents and use them to solve problems.
- Develop and use strategies for
adding and subtraction fractions and adding, subtracting, multiplying, and
dividing decimals accurately.
- Solve problems using addition,
subtraction, multiplication, and division of numbers.
- Understand factors and multiples and
solve simple problems involving them.
Measurement
- Classify angles by size, such as
right, acute, obtuse.
- Measure accurately.
- Use formulas for finding the
perimeter, area, and volume.
learn this skill
- Determine the area of irregular
shapes.
Geometric Sense
- Identify geometric features that
appear outside of math, such as line relationships (parallel, perpendicular,
symmetries, congruence, similarity)
- Compare, contrast, and construct
isosceles, equilateral, and scalene triangles.
- Describe simple transformations
using combinations of slides, flips, and turns.
Probability and Statistics
- Collect, organize, display, and
analyze data to answer a question.
- Describe the characteristics of
data, such as mode, median, mean, and range.
-Make predictions based on data.
- Understand experimental and
theoretical probabilities and the relationship between them.
Experimental:
Theoretical:
Algebraic Sense – (Patterns and Functions)
- Show understanding of linear
functions for patterns with tables, graphs, and words.
- Begin to develop an understanding of
and equation and a variable.